After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

The word is the making of the world

I was the world in which I walked.

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.